There weren’t 91 flawed financial disclosure statements out of 121 examined. We have no idea what the right number is because the state claims were based on shoddy research conducted in a day-and-a-half that was never checked.
There is plenty time now to go back, contact candidates and “verify every apparent match,” which is what any competent researcher would do.
This sham has unfairly damaged the reputation of every professional within the Department of Law.
Read MoreIf you want to know what exactly what Jesus wants from political candidates, just ask Jim Minnery, the Anchorage politician who long had a habit of signing his communiques with “In His Name.”
Waving a flag in one hand and a cross in the other, Minnery excels at denouncing the forces of evil—nearly all of them Democrats—and spreading his blessing on the forces of decency—nearly all of them Republicans—under Donald Trump.
Read MoreThe moral of the story for Sen. Dan Sullivan is to show respect and pay attention.
And to be able to answer questions on your own.
Sullivan wasn’t paying attention. He didn’t listen to the question. And then he looked for guidance from Mary Peltola.
Read MoreAssembly member Tammie Wilson, who has a “family advocate” job created for her by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, and Assembly member Brett Rotermund, the owner of Bulletproof Trailers, have made this team business explicit, though one of the team members—Josh Leaders—takes umbrage at me mentioning this.
Read MoreJonathan Knezel, who earned a bachelor’s degree this year from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, went to Korea not long ago to teach English. It’s not at all unusual for a young man of 25 to explore the world.
What makes his story special are the circumstances under which he left Korea for the first time and traveled to the United States with 240 strangers.
I met him on September 11, 2001 when he was a four-month-old and the center of attention inside the busy terminal at Fairbanks International Airport. He was wrapped in a blanket, wearing an ID on his wrist and a smile on his face.
Read MoreA four-page campaign ad from Sen. Dan Sullivan, paid for with government dollars, has landed in the mailboxes of every “residential customer” in Alaska.
Sullivan should have paid for this document with his own money, not with tax dollars.
Read More“President Trump is finally beginning to tap significantly into his super PAC’s $400 million war chest to help Republicans in the midterms,” the New York Times reports.
The No Going Back PAC has “reserved” $7.7 million to spend in Alaska, the Times reported
Read MoreThe members of the Golden Valley Electric Association deserve to hear more points of view about the utility’s costly proposal to buy a large generator similar to a jet engine on a 747.
Read MoreIt should come as no surprise that the office of acting Attorney General Cori Mills, supplemented by the office of shadow attorney general Stephen Cox, had the staff available to find errors in 91 of 121 financial disclosure statements of candidates.
Read MoreIt is improper to use the Senate letterhead for partisan correspondence and for "any campaign or campaign-related correspondence," according to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
But Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for a third six-year term and must know the rule, decided to violate it last week.
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